Plant functional type classifications in tropical dry forests in Costa Rica: leaf habit versus taxonomic approaches

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• Publication year

  2010

• Venue

  Functional Ecology

• Publication date

  2010-08-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1111/J.1365-2435.2010.01701.X
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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